Monday, May 11, 2009

Pastor convicted of raping 14-year-old

Pastor Yves Jerome was convicted on sexual assault charges. He raped a a 14 year old girl from his church who he was baby sitting.

As police investigated her disappearance, they found a picture she drew for a class project with the word "Abuse" and a depiction of an adult man asking a girl to marry him and her response, "I'm only 14," the affidavit said.

The girl returned home, and later told police Jerome came downstairs from his home into the basement apartment she shared with her family and forced her to have sex with him two nights in February 2007. At the time, the girl's mother was on a trip to Georgia and had asked Jerome to look after her children.

Pastor Jerome is likely to spend the rest of a short an painful life in prison.